Effective Records Management Practices

2.4 Responsibilities of Departments and Agencies towards Public Records

1. To ensure public records are systematically kept and protected
2. To segregate non-active records from active ones
3. To prepare records transfer list
4. To declassify records prior to transfer and disposal
5. To ensure records of archival value are transferred to Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
6. To ensure records more than 25 years are transferred to Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
7. To fumigate records prior to transfer to Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
8. To contact Pustaka Negeri Sarawak for records transfer and records disposal purposes